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RSNO Chorus
@rsnochorus.bsky.social
Evolving since 1843…
Director: Stephen Doughty
Accompanist: Edward Cohen
Vocal Coach: Polly Beck
Socials: David Miller (Chorus tenor)
After 2 hours on Mozart’s Mass in C minor, a few of our fellow choristers still found enough voice to celebrate Scotland’s transfixing win over Denmark in last night’s World Cup Qualifiers at Hampden Park. #Scotland #WorldCup2026 😅💪🏼🎶
November 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Last night, we celebrated the birthday of our Chorus Director, Stephen Doughty. Wishing him every happiness as he enters another year of uplifting music-making with the RSNO Chorus. Seen here rehearsing music for our Christmas Concerts with the Chorus Academy Glasgow ❤️🎶🎄
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Just before this evening’s performance at Matthias Church… What a setting, and what a beautiful reaction from our lovely Budapest audience. Huge congratulations to Stephen, Polly and Ed from us all. A most memorable experience…❤️🎶 @rsno.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The moment we’ve all been waiting for: rehearsals underway with Maestro Farkas and the MÁV Szimfonikus Zenekar. And in the glorious surroundings of the Liszt Academy Budapest… So excited for this evening’s performance 🙏🏼🎶 @rsno.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We all love a bit of merch, and last night our tour merchandise arrived for our imminent trip to Budapest. We’re all hugely looking forward to sporting our hoodies, zoodies, T-shirts and polos around the streets and squares of Hungary’s beautiful capital. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇺❤️🎶
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Always great to welcome new members to the RSNO Chorus. And a baptism of fire it was for them: Mozart’s Mass in C minor and a beautiful choral work by Clara Schumann, Drei gemischte chöre which was new to us all…❤️🎶 cc @srtristan.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
A few captures from our rehearsal and concert at St Mary’s Cahedral yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came along to support us. We are all so looking forward to our next performance at Matthias Church in Budapest in a few weeks time…❤️🎶
September 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
A week in Scotland, and it’s good to see Maestro Farkas embracing his inner Scot ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇺. Wishing you safe travels, Robi. Till we meet again in Budapest in a few weeks 🙏🏼🎶
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wonderful to be rehearsed this evening by Róbert Farkas, Chief Conductor of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest with whom we will be performing in October at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music: the Te Deum and ‘Harmonie’ messe by Haydn ❤️🙏🏼
September 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Three choirs, three conductors and a prodigious organist. Thank you Tallahassee Community Chorus and Nashville Symphony Chorus for inviting us to take part in last night’s choral jamboree at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall; we loved every minute. André Thomas’ Gospel Mass was a real hit 🎶❤️
June 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Fantastic rehearsal last night at Greyfriars Kirk with the Tallahassee Community Chorus and Nashville Symphony Chorus with their conductors, Dr Michael Hanawalt and Dr Tucker Biddlecombe. Tonight’s concert at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall is going to be epic for sure…🙌🏼🎶❤️ cc @waverleycare.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We’re excited to join forces next week with two of America’s finest choirs, the Nashville Symphony Chorus and Tallahassee Community Chorus, in a stirring programme of music by Handel, Britten, Jonathan Dove, Peter Maxwell Davies, Widor and American composer, André Thomas, his Gospel Mass 🙌🏼🎶
June 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Lovely. During our Chorus Jamboree at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall yesterday, our Youth Chorus performed the world premier of four songs from Hepplewhite’s (and Seth Bockley’s) The World We Share. Beautiful works, ecstatically received. 🙌🏼🎶 @rsno.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Aren’t these wonderful experiences, Eluned? Audiences are in raptures, and as you say, many never having been to a symphony orchestra concert before. This from our last concert with Eimear Noone in May 2023 at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. 🙌🏼🎶
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
500 voices taking part in a Chorus Jamboree this afternoon at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall with the RSNO’s full family of choirs: the Workplace Choir and Buggy Choir, Training Choir, Children’s Chorus, Youth Chorus, Chorus Academy Dundee, Chorus Academy Glasgow and Changed Voices! @rsno.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Grateful thanks to audience members for these captures from this weekend’s performances of the Mozart Requiem in Edinburgh and Glasgow with @rsno.bsky.social. What a memorable experience it has been 🎶🙌🏼
April 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Orchestral rehearsal tonight, and always thrilling to hear our soloists in action. Here, Mhairi Lawson, Hanna Hipp, Jamie MacDougall, and Laurent Naouri sounding glorious in the Mozart 🎶❤️ w/ @rsno.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Congratulations, Sir Karl Jenkins, on The Armed Man: a Mass for Peace reaching No.2 in the @classicfm.com Hall of Fame.

Forever thrilled to have performed the work w/ @rsno.bsky.social under Sir Karl’s baton as part of the composer’s 80th Birthday celebrations in April 2024.
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The final curtain calls on this epic musical journey into the heart of a magnificent new opera by Jonathan Dove. Uprising - it’s been an uplifting experience for all of us. Thank you @rsno.bsky.social, conductor Ellie Slorach, Director Sinéad O’Neill, and everyone involved in this epic experience.
March 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Another wonderful rehearsal last night. Jonathan Dove’s Uprising gives glorious and moving voice to the anxiety so many of us feel about climate change and diminishing biodiversity. Profound and moving. 🙌🏼🎶 @rsno.bsky.social

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March 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Some captures from this evening’s full orchestral rehearsal of Uprising with @rsno.bsky.social. Hearing for the first time the soloists and orchestra, it’s safe to say that this new opera by Jonathan Dove is chorally and orchestrally ravishing.

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March 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Shout out to RSNO Youth Chorus and Changed Voices for their part in Jonathan Dove’s Uprising. The energy, commitment and musicianship is just wonderful, and collectively they bring a vivid force to the Opera’s message. Pictured here belting out one of great choral set pieces 🙌🏼🎶 @rsno.bsky.social
March 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Fantastic rehearsal today with the full team involved in this fantastic project: Jonathan Dove’s opera, Uprising. The massed forces the RSNO Youth Chorus and Changed Voices, Chorus Academy Glasgow and RSNO Chorus being expertly directed by Ellie Slorach and Sinéad O’Neill. cc @rsno.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hot on the heels of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, work started this evening on our next concert in April: the Mozart Requiem and Beethoven’s Elegischer Gesang… 🎶❤️ with @rsno.bsky.social

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March 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Pics from our concert this evening at Paisley Abbey. The programme included the Missa Brevis by Joseph McIntyre (principal timpanist with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra for over 30 years), Bernstein’s joyous Chichester Psalms, and Ives’ Psalm 90. Epic and memorable w/ @rsno.bsky.social percussion🎶🙌🏼
March 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM